THE PRODUCT LIST
PART 1
RUCHNIUS IDEAS
· The Sefiras HaOmer Chart
· The Chag Log -- Your Spiritual Diary
· Life-At-A-Glance - The 25 Year Diary
· Talking Numerically-Significant-Minute Clock
· Gashmius Reports Magazine
· The Don't Wants Club
· The Conduit
DAVENING IDEAS
· The Geulah Siddur
· Removable Sticky Arrows
· The Prayer Pacer
· The Talking Brachos-For-Kavannah Machine
· The Birchas HaMazon Booklets
· The Krias Sh'mah al HaMitah Booklet
DIVEIKUS IDEAS
· The Ribone Phone
· The Shechinah Phone
· My Partnership Agreement With Hashem
· The Talking Diveikus Machine
· Diveikus Cards
· Letter From G-d
· Inspiring Quote From The Baal Shem Tov
· The "What A Wonderful World" Video with Louis Armstrong
· The To-You Turner
· The Yichudim Simulator
· Shabbos Meal Prayer
· The Geulah Club
· The Geulah Bracelets
· The Connector
· The Director
· Free Help on How to Get Closer to Hashem
· The Simulator
· Yeshivah Gedolahs Sing
· The Sleep Log
EMUNAH IDEAS
· The Prognosticator
· The Hashem's Protection System and Hashgachah System Integrity Alerting Machine
· The Heavenly Wake Up Service
· The Heavenly Fall Asleep Service
· The Heavenly Insect-Prevention Service
· The 40-Day Yisurim Log
· Free Help for Trouble With Emunah
· The Gratitude Book
SELF-HELP IDEAS
· The Ablator
· The Liberator
· The Excitement!!! Popper
· Mussar Songs
· The Identity Finder
· Your Personal-Weather Report
· The Frustration Tolerator
· How To Stop Feeling Sad
· The "It's Okay To Be Insignificant" Plaque.
· The Work-On-Feeling-Okay Plaque
· The “Liberate Yourself By Saying No” Sign
· The Happy "No" Picture
LEARNING IDEAS
· Gemora Messages
· Video Shiurim From Our Gedolim
· Watch and Learn
· Eat-and-Learn Restaurants
· Read and Learn
· Call and Learn
· Fly and Learn
· Ride and Learn
· Portable Torah Facts
· The Talking Brachos-In-Learning Machine
· Wait-and-Learn
· Applause While Learning
· The Torah Pocket-Library
· The Thinking-In-Learning-Room Picture
· The Punishments Book
· The Kavanah Headband
· The Portable Arba Minim Buyer's Guide
· Free Help for Problems with Learning
· Complete Eyen Mishpat, Plus
· Succah-Builder's Guide, Concise
· Difference Between Inside and Outside Sixth
· The Handy Havdalah Chart
· The Parshios Chart
TZADDIKIM IDEAS
· The Arba Ammos Trainer
· The Reconfirmation-Of-The-Oath Plaque
· The Zap Images Bookmarklet
ANTI-yetzer hora IDEAS
· The Mental Anti-yetzer hora Light Saber
· The Mental Anti-yetzer hora Flamethrower
· The Mental Anti-yetzer hora Machete Knife
· The Slicer
· The Scalpel
· The Anti-Smoking Campaign
· The Anti-Overeating Campaign
· The Talking Silver Cigarette Case
· The Torah Diet
· The Maoz Tzur (Rock Of Ages) Battle Song
· The “You have to get more organized and take better care of yourself” Plaque
· Portable Torah Facts
· The Amalek Revealer
· The Disconnector
MISCELLANEOUS IDEAS
· The Megillas Esther Holder
· The Soap-Remnant Remaker
· Free Help with Hiccups
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THE PRODUCT LIST
PART 2
ARMAMENTARIUM FOR THE FAINT HEARTED
· The Ablator
· The Unwanted-Thoughts Scatterer
· The Mental Anti-yetzer hora Light Saber
· The Mental Anti-yetzer hora Flamethrower
· The Mental Anti-yetzer hora Machete Knife
· The Slicer
· The Scalpel
· The Maoz Tzur (Rock Of Ages) Battle Song
TORAH TOYS IDEAS
· Toy Yeshivah
· Play Chasunah
· Toy Beis HaKinesses
· Play Shabbos Table
· Play Lail Pesach
· Play Simchas Torah
· Play Hakafos
· Toy Eged Bus, #1 or #2
· Toy Succah
· Play Hachnosas Sefer Torah
· Toy Western Wall
· Toy Noach's Ark
· Toy Eshel Avraham
TALMUD TOYS IDEAS
· Avodas Beis HaMikdash
· Mishkan and Shevotim in Midbar
· The Mishkan and 39 Melachos
· Avodas Parah Adumah
· Bikkurim
· Succahs, Kosher and Posul
· Toy Eglah Arufah
INTERPERSONAL IDEAS
· The Chutzpah Smasher
· The Feel-Their-Distress Ball
· Brachah Cards
· Frumy Friendship Cards
· Chag Cards
· The “Leave Them The Way They Are.” Plaque
· The Find-The-Similarities Activity Book
THOUGHT IDEAS
· Thought Mail
· Thought Cleaners
· The Unwanted-Thoughts Scatterer
· The Thought Mail Scrambler
· The Interfering-Thoughts Counter
· The Thoughts Organizer
· The Eitz HaChaim Thought Guarder
TSHUVAH IDEAS
· The Point-Of-A-Needle Hole
· Removable Point-Of-A
Needle-Hole Stickers
· The Middah K'neged Middah Revealer
MIDDOS IDEAS
· The My-Own-Faults Finder
· The See-The-Good Glass
· See-Their-Good / See-Their-Bad Glass
· Bad Middos Ablatement Buttons
· Middos Refinement Buttons
· The My-Faults Book
· The Personality-Trait Blender
· The What's-Right-With-This-Picture Coloring Book
KABBALAH IDEAS
· The Kabbalah Alarm Clock
· The Identity Finder
· Megillas Esther, Revealed
MUSSAR SONGS
· Mussar Songs - home page
· Welcome To The Olum HaZeh Correctional Facility (Hashem’s Prison Planet)
· Everything That Happens
· Have A Smile For Everyone
· You Have That Fault Yourself
· Don’t Get Mad Or Hurt
· These Are Your Guides
· Make Your Enemy Your Friend
· Find A Word Nicer Than Stupid
· Everyone’s Had Better Days
· Just Don’t Get Angry
· A Nice Little Happy Day
· Give Me My Mussar With A Beat
ESSAY NUGGETS
· "I Saw An Upside Down World."
· The Down and The Up
· The Value of Low Self Esteem
· They Don't Play Basketball in Heaven
· Middah K'neged Middah
· On Yisurim
· “You have to get more organized and take better care of yourself.”
· "Good!"
· On Learning Torah L'Shmah
· On Looking For Happiness
· On The Animosity Between Father and Son
· On One's Changing Madrega
· There HAS To Be Something Wrong With Everyone
· Dealing With Adversity
· Life In This World
· How Words Of Torah Help
· “Help me. Save me. Help me. Save me.”
· How To Stop Feeling Sad
· Getting In The Mood For Tisha B'Av
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THE KABBALAH ALARM CLOCK
Helps you live a little bit according to Kabbalah.
Helps you live a little bit according to Kabbalah.
In addition to being a regular alarm clock with all the standard features, The Kabbalah Alarm Clock also has two “Kabbalah settings,” as follows:
(1) The Chatzos HaLailah setting will wake you up a little before Chatzos HaLailah (the midpoint between sunset and sunrise)1, like Dovid HaMelech (King David) used to do (Berachos 3b - see quote below).
(1) The Chatzos HaLailah setting will wake you up a little before Chatzos HaLailah (the midpoint between sunset and sunrise)1, like Dovid HaMelech (King David) used to do (Berachos 3b - see quote below).
You can set The Kabbalah Alarm Clock to wake you up starting either 10, 5 or 2 minutes before chatzos, depending on how heavily you sleep. Just set your city and the date and it does the rest.
The Rashash explains what happens to you if you allow chatzos halailah to pass over you while you are sleeping (brought by Masok MiDivash on the Zohar, parshash VaYigash 206b-207b, p. 298) as follows: “…because if chatzos passes and he is sleeping, then… he descends into the evil half of the klipah Nogah.”
The Rashash explains what happens to you if you allow chatzos halailah to pass over you while you are sleeping (brought by Masok MiDivash on the Zohar, parshash VaYigash 206b-207b, p. 298) as follows: “…because if chatzos passes and he is sleeping, then… he descends into the evil half of the klipah Nogah.”
By the way, if you have been having a difficult time of things lately, either in the way you’ve been feeling or in the things that have been happening to you, try to be awake during chatzos halailah for at least a week or two and see if things don't improve.
(2) The Sixty Breaths setting will wake you up before every 60 breaths, like Dovid HaMelech also used to do (Succah 26b), either before every 3 hours, every half hour, or every 3 1/3 minutes, depending on which opinion you follow (these three opinions are described in Biur Halachah, Orach Chaim, siman 4, s’if katan 16, s.v. Dovid; and in Shaarei Tshuvah, ibid., at the end of s’if katan 10)
This matter of “60 breaths” is complicated, however, by the fact that the Rashash (mentioned by Masok MiDivash on the Zohar, parshas Vayigash 206b-207b, p. 298) defines, according to the Arizal, the term “less than 60 breaths” as not being an actual number but rather as any sleep done before chatzos halailah. In other words, according to the Rashash and the Arizal, “sleeping less than 60 breaths” means any sleeping that you do before chatzos (and that would be okay), and “sleeping more than 60 breaths” means sleeping through chatzos (and that would not be okay).
Therefore, if you choose to follow this definition of the Rashash, you wouldn’t use this second clock option of waking before every 3 hours, half hour or 3 1/3 minutes at all but would use the Chatzos option (#1) to satisfy this criteria of sleeping less than 60 breaths.
Therefore, if you choose to follow this definition of the Rashash, you wouldn’t use this second clock option of waking before every 3 hours, half hour or 3 1/3 minutes at all but would use the Chatzos option (#1) to satisfy this criteria of sleeping less than 60 breaths.
(If you happen to be one of those people who are only able to sleep for an hour or two before you suddenly and unwillingly wake up, it may be because Hashem is making you merit to this high Kabbalistic level without your knowing it.)
Footnotes:
1Chatzos halailah is not midnight, and it is different for different cities, even for different cities in the same time zone. To find chatzos for your city, do the following:
1. click here: timeanddate.com. Then,
2. In the page that opens up in your browser, enter your city and state/country in the search window at the upper right corner (not in any of the boxes in the body of the page -- rather way up on the top of the page, on the right, that says,"search:"), and press Enter.
3. In the list on the next page, click on the “Sunrise and Sunset” link. (It’s usually the second one in the list.)
4. Chatzos is listed under the “Solar noon”/“Time” column (chatzos of the day and chatzos of the night are the same times, just one is A.M. and one is P.M.)
5. You can then save that page in your Favorites, so you can go directly to it every time.
Since the times of sunset and sunrise are not exact, make sure you’re awake a few minutes before and after the times listed for chatzos.
1Chatzos halailah is not midnight, and it is different for different cities, even for different cities in the same time zone. To find chatzos for your city, do the following:
1. click here: timeanddate.com. Then,
2. In the page that opens up in your browser, enter your city and state/country in the search window at the upper right corner (not in any of the boxes in the body of the page -- rather way up on the top of the page, on the right, that says,"search:"), and press Enter.
3. In the list on the next page, click on the “Sunrise and Sunset” link. (It’s usually the second one in the list.)
4. Chatzos is listed under the “Solar noon”/“Time” column (chatzos of the day and chatzos of the night are the same times, just one is A.M. and one is P.M.)
5. You can then save that page in your Favorites, so you can go directly to it every time.
Since the times of sunset and sunrise are not exact, make sure you’re awake a few minutes before and after the times listed for chatzos.
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SELECTED RELEVANT QUOTATIONS FROM SEFORIM HAKEDOSHIM
ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF ALL BUT ONE OF THE ABOVE QUOTATIONS
· (Berachos 3b) Rav Oshaya said that Rabbi Acha said: So said Dovid [HaMelech], chatzos halailah never passed over me in my sleep. Rabbi Zera said: Until chatzos halailah he would nap like a horse, from there and onward he would strengthen himself like a lion.
· (Succah 26b; Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chaim, chapter 231, section 1) Rav said: It is forbidden for a person to sleep during the day more than the sleep of a horse. And how much is the sleep of a horse? Sixty breaths.
· (Zohar HaKodesh, parshas Bishalach, 46a) At chatzos halailah, HaKadosh Baruch Hu enters Gan Eden to amuse himself with the tzaddikim. At that time, a person needs to rise [from his bed] and learn Torah. And it is taught that HaKadosh Baruch Hu and all the tzaddikim in Gan Eden listen to his voice.
· (Ben Yehoyada, Yoma 20b, s.v. u’mah) Because in the night the Chitzonim rule and in the day they do not rule. Therefore, there is benefit in learning Torah at night to weaken the power of the Chitzonim.
· (Taz, Orach Chaim, 4:12) The Zohar writes that more than 60 breaths is from the Sitra Achra.
· (Aruch LaNer, Succah 26b, s.v. v’dovid) The Rama in Aruch Chaim (4:16) writes that the gemora here implies that his [Dovid HaMelech] sleep during the day was like this, and the Magen Avraham (subchapter 14) challenges this in that in the Zohar and in Berachos it is stated explicitly that at night he wouldn’t sleep more than the sleep of a horse. And in my humble opinion, it is possible to say that there are two reasons why he didn’t sleep more. The first is so that he wouldn’t taste the taste of death, as is explained in the Shulchan Aruch there and as explained more in the Zohar that the Taz brings (subchapter 12); and the second is because of bitul Torah…. And behold, Dovid had both reasons because he wanted to rectify the sin of Adom HaRishon which brought death to the world, as explained in the Zohar, and therefore at night also he didn’t sleep more than 60 breaths at one time.
· (Succah 26b; Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chaim, chapter 231, section 1) Rav said: It is forbidden for a person to sleep during the day more than the sleep of a horse. And how much is the sleep of a horse? Sixty breaths.
· (Zohar HaKodesh, parshas Bishalach, 46a) At chatzos halailah, HaKadosh Baruch Hu enters Gan Eden to amuse himself with the tzaddikim. At that time, a person needs to rise [from his bed] and learn Torah. And it is taught that HaKadosh Baruch Hu and all the tzaddikim in Gan Eden listen to his voice.
· (Ben Yehoyada, Yoma 20b, s.v. u’mah) Because in the night the Chitzonim rule and in the day they do not rule. Therefore, there is benefit in learning Torah at night to weaken the power of the Chitzonim.
· (Taz, Orach Chaim, 4:12) The Zohar writes that more than 60 breaths is from the Sitra Achra.
· (Aruch LaNer, Succah 26b, s.v. v’dovid) The Rama in Aruch Chaim (4:16) writes that the gemora here implies that his [Dovid HaMelech] sleep during the day was like this, and the Magen Avraham (subchapter 14) challenges this in that in the Zohar and in Berachos it is stated explicitly that at night he wouldn’t sleep more than the sleep of a horse. And in my humble opinion, it is possible to say that there are two reasons why he didn’t sleep more. The first is so that he wouldn’t taste the taste of death, as is explained in the Shulchan Aruch there and as explained more in the Zohar that the Taz brings (subchapter 12); and the second is because of bitul Torah…. And behold, Dovid had both reasons because he wanted to rectify the sin of Adom HaRishon which brought death to the world, as explained in the Zohar, and therefore at night also he didn’t sleep more than 60 breaths at one time.
The one remaining Hebrew quotation from Eruvin needs to be translated into English.
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